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Child maltreatment is a pervasive public health problem with well-documented impacts on a child's well-being. The connection between social determinants of health and child maltreatment is well established, particularly economic [...]

The Prevention Initiative Demonstration Project, funded by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), is a community-specific strategy delivered through eight regional networks designed to address the full spectrum of community-based prevention. This article summarizes a strong and meaningful pattern of improvements found in the second year evaluation for three groups of families--those living in high-risk communities but not involved with DCFS, those being investigated by DCFS for possible child maltreatment, and those with open DCFS cases., Leaders in public child welfare agencies across the country recognize that prevention can be an important supplement to traditional protective services and foster care, but few have invested resources or [...]

This paper describes an innovative service delivery model to reduce the number of children entering the child welfare system. Point of Engagement (POE) is a collaborative family- and community-centered approach [...]